Frontiers in Sustainable Waste Management and Biomass Energy Conversion
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2022) | Viewed by 424
Special Issue Editors
Interests: renewables; biomass thermochemical & biochemical processes; energy efficieny; energy systems Modeling; computational fluid dynamics
Interests: bioenergy life cycle cost analysis; thermal generation
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Interests: biomass recycling and recovery; agricultural residue processing; biofuels; biorefinery technology and products; 3D printing from biomass; plastic wastes and their biodegradation
Interests: anaerobic digestion; hydrothermal carbonization; pyrolysis; biofuels
2. Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt
Interests: Innovative biological wastewater treatment; biomass conversion; bioenergy and biomaterials; Bioremediation; sustainable development; persistent organic pollutants; hazardous waste valorization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the incessant depletion of natural resources and the increasing greenhouse emissions, the awareness of the need for a real sustainable development is growing more and more. To cope with the continuously increasing demand for energy and the need of reducing human impact, an intense research activity is observed worldwide to support the valorization of both wastes and biomasses into valuable materials and energy. Therefore, both the Waste Management and the full Biomasses potential exploitation, are key to give a significant contribution to the sustainability world goal. Such ambitious objective, can only be reached by a multidisciplinary approach. As widely reported in recent literature, engineering must necessarily dialogate with biological sciences, by virtue of the need to find a stable equilibrium between man and environment, which is the very sustainability concept. Significant advances have been recently made with emphasis on recovery of resources, on the biorefinery concept as well as on waste and wastewater treatments. In order to increase their contribution for a more sustainable future, this special issue has been conceptualized to highlight some of such advances. Waste and biomass thermochemical conversion processes, including gasification, pyrolysis, carbonization and liquefaction, are gaining a significant growth in industrial application, by the production of biofuels and carbon-based materials with high added value and low impact. Parallely, biochemical conversion processes, have several inherent benefits ranging from generating renewable energy, remediating waste (water), reducing greenhouse gas emission, improving health/hygiene and overall socio-economic status of rural communities in developing nations. In this special issue, the articles with such multidisciplinary approach will therefore be more than welcomed. The research papers and reviews can deal from the compatibility of the proposed process with the environmental matrices, to their engineering by means of state of art design and modeling techniques. High quality research papers and state-of-the-art critical reviews in the following areas are then welcomed:
Dr. Alessandro Manni
Prof. Dr. Electo Eduardo Silva Lora
Prof. Dr. Jianzhong Sun
Dr. Fábio Codignole Luz
Prof. Dr. Sameh Samir Ali
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Waste and Biomass Conversion processes design and optimization
- Improvement of Conversion processes overall efficiency
- Biomass and waste pretreatments
- Model development and process simulation
- Integration among biochemical and thermochemical conversion processes
- Anaerobic digestion process control, bioenergetics and modelling
- Anaerobic treatment of micro-pollutants
- Biogas upgrading , Biohydrogen production, and Digestate utilization
- Emerging AD technology and Small-scale digesters
